Re: [GENERAL] Bug in PostgreSQL JDBC Drive.

2001-03-29 Thread Peter Mount
At 09:43 16/03/01 -0500, Raymond Chui wrote: Delayed as I only read General once in a while - jdbc mails should go to the jdbc list. I have PostgreSQL jdbc7.0-1.2.jar JDBC drive. I found out if a column of a table is Timestamp data type Properties p = new Properties(); p.put("PGTZ", "GMT");

[GENERAL] Re: stored procedure and timestamp

2001-03-29 Thread Karel Zak
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:13:19PM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote: I have the following trigger/stored procedure: CREATE FUNCTION memb_num () RETURNS opaque AS ' BEGIN NEW.member_num := date_part(''epoch'', timestamp ''now'');

Re: [GENERAL] fastpath error?

2001-03-29 Thread Peter Mount
At 07:56 28/03/01 -0500, chris markiewicz wrote: Hello. I am occasionally (seemingly randomly) seeing the following error when I try to load a large object. FastPath call returned ERROR: lo_close: invalid large obj descriptor (0) You must setAutoCommit(false) before using any large object.

Re: [GENERAL] how to load a sql-file????

2001-03-29 Thread Marek Ptlicki
On Wednesday, March, 2001-03-28 at 16:55:55, will trillich wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:17:31AM +0200, Marek Ptlicki wrote: On Tuesday, March, 2001-03-27 at 21:42:39, markus jais wrote: in MySQL I can type something like in Bash on my linux box: $ mysql -u root -p file.sql

[GENERAL] tables, where

2001-03-29 Thread Martín Marqués
Hi Is it a bad idea to put tables of different aplications, even if they have somethings in comun, in the same database? Saludos... :-) -- El mejor sistema operativo es aquel que te da de comer. Cuida tu dieta. - Martin Marques

Re: [GENERAL] Determine Time in other Time Zone

2001-03-29 Thread Russell Hires
Upon further review... :-) I had a look at the ntp website, and there is a bunch of links at the bottom. http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ is the main ntp page. http://www.bsdi.com/date/date?PRC is pretty interesting. It appears that someone has already figured out the time in the various

[GENERAL] VARCHAR and TEXT

2001-03-29 Thread Paolo Sinigaglia
Hi everybody, I have a little question about string types in PostgreSQL: it seems I don't understood well how string data are stored in the database, from a recent post by Tom Lane I feel encouraged to think that VARCHAR and TEXT are treated the same way by PG, i.e. they occupy ony the space

Re: Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] timestamp/function question

2001-03-29 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:46:42PM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote: blah blah blah snip ...and that all meant what? The postgres manual is open to much interpretation to anyone new trying to understand its contents. Combine that with documentation that's still not written, or broken

[GENERAL] ExecSQL NullPtrEx...conn timeout?

2001-03-29 Thread chris markiewicz
i am seeing NullPtrExs with the following stack trace: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.postgresql.Connection.ExecSQL(Connection.java:312) at org.postgresql.jdbc2.Connection.commit(Connection.java:173) at com.commnav.sbh.framework.persist.JDBCConnection.disconnect(JDBCConnection.j ava:416)

Re: [GENERAL] timestamp/function question

2001-03-29 Thread Tom Lane
Soma Interesting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why does the following code return the exact same value each time, instead of a value based on the current time? CREATE FUNCTION memb_num () RETURNS INT4 AS ' BEGIN RETURN date_part(''epoch'', CURRENT_DATE); END; '

Re: [GENERAL] Pgsql-7.1RC1: SET SEED = something

2001-03-29 Thread Tom Lane
Alexey Borzov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The development docs state that one can use SET SEED to seed the random number generator Where? I see no such claim. If there's something that leads you to think that SET SEED and not setseed() is correct, then the docs need to be fixed.

Re: [GENERAL] explain shows lots-o-preliminary sorting

2001-03-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:27:36PM -0600, will trillich wrote: more generally, what changes are possible to enhance performance of select queries? forcing indexes vs. seqential scans, using different joins that don't need sorting, etc. what's available? You're not going to know what your

Re: [GENERAL] full table scan on 'select max(value) from table'?

2001-03-29 Thread Brent R. Matzelle
--- Sean Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a table, 'mesg_headers', which holds headers from email messages. Each message has a unique integer ID within the system, 'mesgid'. mesgid is the primary key for mesg_headers, so it has index mesg_headers_pkey. This index is used if I do

Re: [GENERAL] Inserting possible dublicate unique keys

2001-03-29 Thread Alvar Freude
Hi, Richard Huxton wrote: CREATE TABLE referer ( id SERIAL, referer varchar(2048) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY ); [...] Why have you got id as a serial if referer is your primary key? Oh - I suppose it's easier to reference a serial of course, less data to carry around. oh, in

Re: [GENERAL] tables, where

2001-03-29 Thread Richard Huxton
From: "Martn Marqus" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Is it a bad idea to put tables of different aplications, even if they have somethings in comun, in the same database? Saludos... :-) Plus points : + If you need to join between tables you will *need* to do this Minus points : - You will need to

Re: [GENERAL] VARCHAR and TEXT

2001-03-29 Thread Vilson farias
I gave up from using ODBC... to much problems with blobs and other stuff... and really very low speed under Delphi. Try Zeos Database Components for Postgre(http://www.marms.com/zeos). I've been using for 6 mounths and its great. Blobs greater than 8Kb still are a big problem, but you will see

Re: [GENERAL] Pgsql-7.1RC1: SET SEED = something

2001-03-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: Alexey Borzov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The development docs state that one can use SET SEED to seed the random number generator Where? I see no such claim. If there's something that leads you to think that SET SEED and not setseed() is correct, then the docs need to

Re: [GENERAL] Pgsql-7.1RC1: SET SEED = something

2001-03-29 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, this used to work, but for some reason it's called 'set random_seed' now. I seem to be responsible for this, although I can't imagine what the motivation might have been. Should I change it back? If "set seed" worked in 7.0.* then I think

Re: [GENERAL] tables, where

2001-03-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Richard Huxton wrote: From: "Martín Marqués" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it a bad idea to put tables of different aplications, even if they have somethings in comun, in the same database? Plus points : Minus points : As I have not received an answer to my posted

[GENERAL] Re: database dirs very stange on solaris

2001-03-29 Thread Gregory Wood
You didn't mention which version either of those machines are running. I believe in 7.1 Postgres the database filenames changed to a numerical database id of some sort. Prior to that, they were named the same as the database. I don't know the reasoning behind the switch, but I'm fairly sure it

[GENERAL] Re: function to operate on same fields, different records?

2001-03-29 Thread Gregory Wood
SELECT sum(grade) / count(grade) As GPA FROM grades; (bad juju if 0) No kidding... that kid totally failed ALL his classes! And before someone points it out, yes I saw the DBZ. Greg ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1:

[GENERAL] Re: Consistent pg_dump's

2001-03-29 Thread Gregory Wood
I am pretty sure that pg_dump produces a consistent snapshot, using the same transaction isolation mechanism (MVCC) as the database itself. If one of the gurus posts and says otherwise, believe him, not me. ;) My impression from reading the source was that it was consitant per-table

[GENERAL] PostGreSQL 7.1

2001-03-29 Thread datactrl
Hi, All Where can I get a PostGreSQL 7.1 lattest beta version with RPM installation? JACK ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html